What paint for Epson 8350 in light controlled room?

First off, thanks to all of you who have posted all these copious amounts of information about screens, light, colors and paints. It is amazing how much information there is here.

I've spent the last week reading threads here (all the way back to stuff from '06), and i feel reasonably educated, but i'd like some input from others.

Layout:

I have an Epson 8350 in a room that's just shy of 12'x14'. 8' high drop ceiling. Projector and seating (currently 1 reclining sofa) are centered on one of the 14' walls, the screen will go on the opposite wall (duh!). Currently projecting on the bare wall. Throw distance is about 10', creating an image 98" diagonal.

The room is in the basement. No windows. One door (center of the left wall) to another windowless room. I am planning to paint the walls and ceiling a dark tint / color to minimize reflections, and will possibly put a dark rug on the floor.

Light situation:

I can have a black cave by closing the door for when i want to watch a movie. But regularly we'll watch some TV and sometimes we'll perhaps have dinner there. Typically we'll leave the door open in those cases, and as a result will have a little bit of ambient light coming from the stairs on the far side of the other room.

I am planning to add some form of lighting in the room to have on when we want to have dinner there for example, so i'm thinking perhaps recessed cans over the sofa, or some other type of spotlight that i can control.

Level of DYI:

I've build a simple painter BO cloth screen 8 years ago for my old CRT projector setup (Marquee 8500LC), and i'm not unhandy I already bought a Thrifty White Hardboard the other night I have a compressor, and a HVLP gun from Harbor Freight that i never used. I checked and the nozzle tip is 2.0mm (which i understand is probably too big, would need a 1.5mm?) I've never done any spray painting. I rolled my old BO cloth screen with Behr UPW years ago, and wasn't thrilled about my skills doing that. I'm just not a good painter apparently

So given these parameters, what would you recommend, and why? I see both MaxxMudd and Silver Fire for example, and i'm not sure what the pros and cons of each are, much less which one would be more suitable for my situation.

Thanks for your input!

So that's the "what"... what about the "why"? Why not MaxxMudd for example?

And - Isn't the purpose of these mixes to help fight ambient light? If i have full control over the light, dark walls etc, wouldn't just a white screen work just fine?

Alright, sounds like i'm going to be doing some painting then I posted a few more questions over in the Silver Fire thread here. I would appreciate any illumination you can provide.

Hah, fortunately no! Been busy, real life getting in the way of my hobby etc, you know how that goes...

I still want to try to a Silver Fire screen. However, my schedule is not going to allow me to take care of that in 1 weekend, especially with all the Christmas and such coming up. Still gotta buy a sprayer, and i expect i'll have to practice a few times to get it right, and so before you know it, with my schedule, it'll be several weeks before that'd be done.

In the mean time i did want to have something instead of just the bare cream colored wall though. So this weekend i did the "neutral gray + poly" from the Beginner's Delight thread. I just rolled that straight onto the wall (well, did 2 coats of primer), and was able to knock that out pretty quickly. It's a vast improvement over the "bare wall" situation obviously, and looks pretty darn good to me already. And it confirms to me that something gray is indeed a good solution. (Coming from CRT, i was doubtful about such a solution.)

This will allow me to spend the little bit of free time i have available on getting the rest of the room addressed as well, such as painting the walls and the ceiling, building speaker stands, etc, while still being able to enjoy TV and / or a movie at night on a pretty decent screen.

Then in parallel i can work on building my SF screen I'll need to order a sprayer, set up an area where i can do the spraying, and then practice and do it. Now the time pressure is off, and i can do it at my leisure and enjoy this as a learning experience. This is, after all, a hobby, and the journey is part of it.

So having watched stuff on this projector on the grey (~N8) + poly painted wall, the Natural and Cinema settings are very dim compared to the Dynamic setting (as to be expected). Normally i'm all for accurate (and so i started with the Natural and Cinema settings), but the difference is quite amazing. With the Dynamic mode, stuff really "pops" more and is way more "window-like" to me. Avatar for example looks much more life-like to me with the Dynamic mode (i did calibrate some by eye to get more accurate colors and brightness / contract, going to finally buy a meter thingy on the near future to properly calibrate it)

How much of the Cinema / Natural modes being so dim is attributable to the ~N8 grey paint? And how would SF 3.0 compare to this?

Sounds good to me Now i just gotta finish a couple other projects around the house first before i can build the screen